Machine for producing controllers for typographic machines.



w. H. LONG. MACHINE FOR PRODUCING CONTROLLERS FOR TYPOGRAPHIC MACHINES.

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Patented Dec. 5,1916.

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WITNESSES INVENTOR w; H. LONG. MACHINE FOR PRODUCING CONTROLLERS FORTYPUGRAPHIC MACHINES.

APPLICATION FIL ED DEC. 2, \9H-' Patented D00. 5,1916.

WITNESSES: WNVENTOR ATTORNEY w. H. LONG. MACHINE FOR PRODUCINGCONTROLLERS FOR TYPOGRAPHIG MACHINES.

APPLIQATIUN FILED DEC. 2.19M.

' Patented D00. 5,1916.

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n46 SW .y". M AT TURNEY w. H.LONG. MACHINE FOR PRD'bUCING CONTROLLERSFOR TYPOGRAPHIC MACHINES.

APPLICAHON FILED DEC. 2. 19m:

' Patented D60. 5, 1916.

WITNESSES:

ATTQRNEY W. H. LONG.

MACHINE FOR PR'ODUCING CONTROLLERS FOR T YPOGRAPHIC MACHlNES.APPLICATION FILED DEC. 2; I911.

1,207,576. Patented Dec. 5,1916.

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MACHINE FOR PRODUCING CONTROLLERS FOR TYPOGRAPHIC MACHINES.

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, w. H. LONG. MACHINE FOR PRODUCING CONTROLLERS FOR TYPOGRAPHICMACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 2.1911.

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I mygwran ,4 omvrr W. H. LONG. MACHINE FOR PRUDUCING comnouens FORTYPOGRAPHlC MACHINES.

APPLICATION HLEDDEC. 2. 1911.

Patentd Dec. 5,1916.

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W. H. LONG. MACHINE FOR PRODUCING CONTROLLERS FOR TYPOGRAPHIC MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 2. 19!].

1,207,576. Patented Dec. 5,1916

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a perforation in the strip or sheet in the passage 5.

The selection of the punches is controlled from the keyboard andaccording to certain features of the invention means are pro vided fordelaying the making of a perforation by a selected punch for one keystroke, or until the selection of the next succeedin punch. By thismeans a high percentage 0 the errors of composition are eliminated,that-is they do not appear in the controller at all, and the work ofcorrection is reduced to a minimum. It will be understood that sucherrors as striking one key for another are usually recognized by theoperator as soon as made, and as the perforation is not made until thenext succeeding key is struck, he has opportunity to prevent the-.wrongperforation being made by substituting the selection of the correctpunch for the wrong one before the next succeeding stroke. Means arealso provided for allowing for conditions arising due to the striking ofthe same letter twice in succession, and to the necessary functions oroperations of both the present machine and the typographic machinecontrolled by the controller with reference to the sequence ofcharactersor functions in thetypographic machine. These conditions,among others, are had in view'in the mechanism whereby the punches areselected and are actuated to make the perforations.

In the embodied form of mechanism a series of interponcnts correspondingto the key levers of the machine are moved into position by thecorresponding key levers to cause the punch to be actuated by the punchactuating means. As embodied. interponents 20 are mounted to-swingloosely on a rock shaft 21. Said interponents are located between theteeth of a suitable guide plate 22 which serves to keep them inalinement with their respective punches. Each of said punch operatinginterponents (Figs. 2, 3 and-14:) 20, as shown is provided with adownwardly extending arm 23, -which arm is adapted to engage with apivoted, spring pressed contact piece or'pawl 24 mounted on the end ofthe corresponding key lever. Each of said contacts 24 is pivoted at2.5-, and is yieldingly held bye spring 26. .Ll 'ion another arm of eachinterponent is mounted a pivoted spring pressed contact piece or pawl27, pivoted at 28,' and held under tension by a spring 29.

Each interponent 20 carries also an arm 30- wlnch cooperates with theactuating device} therefor.

Theactuating devices for the successive se ected lnterponents asembodied comprise a universal bail or rod 31, carried n arms fixed tothe shaft 21. Fixed also to said shaft '21 is an arm 83. A spring '34:is connected to said arm and for convenience to a guidecomb 22 for thepurpose of restor ing the universal bail 31 to position. Carried uponthernachine frame is a frictionall'y driven shaft 40 which serves toactuate the bail 31, to operate the selected punch. Fixed on said shaft40 is an escapement wheel 41, with which wheel cooperates an anchoresca'pement 42 having two escapement engaging arms 43 and 44, and a tailsaid shaft 49 are arms 52 carrying a universal bar 53, which extends)ast the ends of all the key levers. Pivotaly mounted at 54 on the endof each key' lever is a-pawl 55 acted upon by a sprin 56. Carried uponsaid bail actuating she 40 and fixed thereto is a'toothed wheel 57, atooth on which engages with the arm 33 fixed to the bail carryingshaft-21. Thekeylevers-work in slots 60 former ina-ljlOck- 61 carriedupon the machine frame. Each key lever is acted upon by restoring spring62, and each restoring ring has a tension adjusting screw 63. 1 euniversal escapement releasing bar 53. is restored by means-of spring64: acting tween the arm 50 and the machine frame.

The manner of operation ofthe'devices so far described is substantiallyas follows: When a key lever 2 is: depressed, it rocks about its pivot3. against the 'action of its of the key lever and its interponentismade by reason of the springand pivot mountings of the contact or, pawl24 which engages the interponent-to raise it. It will be recalled thatthe previously selected interponent is in operative position both as tothe punch actuating bail 31 and its own punch 10. As the key lever nowbeing actuated moves up wardly, the pawl 55 engages the universalescapement operatingbar-53, rocking said bar and also the shaftfli). Thearm 50 also participates in this movement, and its finger I 51 slidesthe spring pressedhitch 17 of the tail 45 ofthe anchorescapement awayfrom its. stop.- Theescapcment is then free to. 1 I

s\\'ing,'releasing the bail actuating shaft 40 for a partial rotationequal in extent to. the distance betweentwo successive teeth ofthe hail31 is moved by the rocking of its shaft 21, and the tooth 103 onithepreviously selected interponent 20 passes out of engagement with its pin102 on the sequence cylindcr 100 the arm 110 through the rocking ofshaft 21 swings the detent tooth 107 into env gagement with the ratchetwheel 10& to hold the cylinder 100 against rotation. As the nextsucceeding interponent comes up, and the tooth 103 thereon passes intoposition to engage the corresponding pin in said helical series 102, thearm 110 swinging in the opposite direction permits the detent 107 topass out of engagement with the ratchet 104C. The cylinder 100 is thusallowed to rotate until thepin in said helical series engages with thetooth 103 upon its corresponding interponent.

Fixed on the shaft 101 is an arnr111, which as it comes to the properpointin its travel by reason of the rotation of said shaft 101 willengage with and rock the hell crank lever 112, which is pivot-ed at 113upon the machine frame. The other end of said bell crank lever 112 ispivotally connected by a link 11% with one arm of a bell cranlt lever115, which latter lever is pivoted on the machine frame at 110. Carriedupon the other arm of said bell crank lever 115 is a pivoted releasingfinger 1'17, pivoted at 118 and yieldinglyheld against a suitablestop-by a .Ioflthe anchor escapeinent swings the tail spring-119. Saidbell crank lever is acted upon by the restoring spring 120. Fixed uponthe frictionally driven shaft 121 of the controller strip feedingcylinder 7' is an escapement Wheel 1522. 'Pivoted upon the machine framein operative relation with said escapement Wheel 1222 is an anchoresc'apernent 123. In the tail 124: of said anchor escapement is mounteda. spring pressed slidable detent 1:25, which is normally against theside of a stop 12G carried upon the machine frame.

Whenever the arm 111 in its rotationengages with the hell crank lever112, through the connections just described, it rocks the bell cranklever 115 against its spring 120, and the releasing finger 117 pushesthe de tent latch 125 out of engagement with its step 126. This leavesthe anchor escapement 123 free to swing and gives the controllerstripfeeding-cylinder 7 awmovement equal toa' one tooth feed of theesca-pcment wheel 122. The engagement of the passing tooth of-theescapement wheel with the other arm backwardly, and the detent latch 125again engages its stop, thus insuring but a single I toothfeed. Byreason of the pivot and ;s'pring mounting of the releasing finger 117,It will be understood that the detent latch willlengage its stop whetheror not the releasing finger hashad time a) m'oveback out "of its path,as thc latch'in its angular ni'ovc- Inent, should it meet with saidreleasing fiagcr. will give it a-pivota-l movement against its springthe latch itself enga' ing with its stop. It will thus be seen that t econtroller strip receives a lineefeed each time-that the characters ofthe composition-passthrough the sequence of the typographic inofchine,and that the perforations for'all' the characters' occurring in sequenceon ,the typographic machine Will be placed up'on one transverse line ofthe controller, r

In typographic machinesit' is frequently desirable to print charactersof different Widths, and this is absolutely necessary where a high classPIOdUCt;. lS' desired, as otherwise such letters as m and w w'ould havethe same space in the line as land 1 and the work in this respect wouldhave the untidy and inartistic appearance so familiar in ordinarytypewriting. Where the lines are to be justified, itis-necessary torecord or store the Width values of the composed letters in each line inorder to-determine the surplusage or shortage of the completed linerelatively to the predetermined line measure so as to distribute sameamong the interver bal or word spaces and thus justify the lines. Forthis purpose a unit value is'assigned to each letter and wordspaceghndhseach lettor or space in the composition is struck, the value thereof isstored away br; recorded in the mechanism to be laterrecognizedd y thejustifying mechanism injustify-ingthe linei In the embodied'form (s'e egl ig s. St and 3) there is dependent from:eaich-ltey'lever a pivotallyhung rod 150. lidablycarried upon the lower end of each "rod .150 is'acontact head 151, a spring 152,-coi1edabout the rod 150, acting betweensaid "contact head 151 and a shoulder at the head of said rod 150. Inoperative relation with. 'eziclrofsai'd contact heads 151 is a "unitgage'int-erponent 158. Said interponent has a lug' 15j4 thereon withwhich said contact head lfi l-e'ngages to move the interponentintobperative relation as hereinafter described. Siiid'interponent hasits tail .155 slidably and free s upportad between two rods156'anda15'fisaidta il also passin through one ofthe'slots'ofi a guidingcomb 158. Each interponent is; provided near its head with a lag 159 t'trhieh is at inched aspring' 160 tendingt ipel'theintel-Wheat upwardlyand run i'dlyagainst a positioning rod 161.,fOn1 th iiderside of saidinterponent is a notch w Inope rative relation ivith said serie (if-v 1itl ltlie tail; of

there is lift. or case,

' selection of a character. For this pnrpose there 15 'provlded- 1n thepresentembodiment;

' cam shaft 188 is anescapement-wheel.196;-

' counting (ram shatt- 188 .is permitted to Luz.

said blades or vanes being mounted upon a irictionally driven shait 172andeach being rotatable into operative position rith 1'6 Located belowthe series of interponents is a universal bail 173 carried warms-17d:-fixed'lto the shaft 175 mounted upon the machine frame. liixed to saidshaft 1Z5 is an arm 176.. Pivotally connected between said arm 17.6.anda-bell crank lever 17is a link 1Y7. loosely mounted upon a shaft IYQL-FlXGd to said shaftv179 is a ratchet Wheel 180, and a pawl 181-ispivotally connected to one arm of saidlever 178 and engages. with saidratchet thee! 18Q, said pawl being soheld by the spring 182. it suitablelocking pawl 183 also-acts upon said ratchet Wheel; 180,-. to preventback movement'thereof; ,To the other end of said pawl carrying bellcrank lever 178 is, ivoted a link 18-1,; the other 7 the ratchet-wheel180, willbe hereinafterend thereofeing pivota-llv oonneotedto bell cranklever 185. The other end of said 7 last named bell crank lever-isprovided with a cam roll 186'in operative relation with cam 187.upon'the frictionallv driven ,unitl counting cam shaft 188. Said leveris held to its cam, am. said mechanismjustde. scribed is correspondingly,held' by the re storing spring '189 acting between the arfn 176 and themachineframeQ j Means are rov-ided for actuating the unit countingn'ieclianism in connection with each a cam 189 fixed on the punchactuating cam shaft 40 to rotate therewith. In operative relation withsaid cam a lever? 9 pivoted at 191, iihd held to i-ts camby spring 1'22.On-the other arm of-said lever n'ovidd a-'pivo'tally mounted releasinglinger 193,; aivoted-at1 94, and yieldingly; held against a suitablestop- 201 by the spring 195. Fixed on'said unit counting.

Cooperating therewith is an anchor escape ment 197,, pivoted alt-198.,andthe tail-piece 199 oils-aid anchor escapement provizl'edwith-a spring--pressed sliding. latch, 200,v which is normally in positiomagains't aface of the fixed stop .201 to'-prexcnt =rotation of said'shaft.'=

V The manner of:ifloperation. (if-the "mecha- I nism just described-issubstantial-lyg s-fob Miranhen the punch;operating]ll ft 40 rctategighelcver 190 'iss-rni ked to; the escapemen't whee-1M1 96; andtth ahalt't-itiolu the hell (crank lever; 19:)

Said boll crank lever 178 is or the different cases of ajparticular;char 'Ilhat is, in moredetail, and merely by way blades 1'(1"arrangedradial-1y or ai'ignlarly -,.-1le.\'ei"s, -22() corresponding'to the sinthe pawl 181 baclc along the teeth 'of ratchet wheel 180, Previous-tothis, however, the depression 0 E' the keyIleve'r has brought thecorresponding.interponent 153 downwardly so'that its notch 162 engagesthe universal bail 173. As the ba il.1 73- swings to the right,ro'ferredto-Fig'.-.2 or 3-, the interponent-slides...\\'hicli,said-uni'ts'are stored from the shaft 179 (see Figs.fiend-6), which is rotated by described. a

Mea'nsare provided for shifting the unit gage blades orvanes'to provideforvariations in the Width of .the'various characters,

m a' given perforation When pdifi enent shifts are xllsetl 1n connectionthere \v1th.i

example,' a single perforation in' thejcon lerstripijmay stand inCOI1]llI1Ct10I1W1tll on shift perforation for a lower case roman,

character and in connection 'with another sli iftmg perforation saidcharacter selecting perforation may stand for the upper case romanof-the same :charaeter, with a conse-.

qunt ly different un'itvalue, and so 01f with- ,tlieother characterswhich maybe indicated xh'y s'uehsingle character selecting perfo1:a-,' 1

tions' connectiong vith the variousshift .-.'co ntr lingfietiorations..In the presenfiem; r bodiment aeontrolle r is prepared adaptedtocotiperate .x'v'ith a typograpl'iic machine haring fsix shifts ordifferent positions or characters torres'pondlng to' 'eachcharacter"selecting'perforat on recognized by the-typographic:machinelsee.Figs!1,3,;5 and 15). U As embodied the 'unit gag-e170 cons sts.therefore of six unit width determining vanes' or and key'ter, produced on thejtypog aphic' machine ,I-

fit then jn-use. The"embod'ied i sitions on the typographic machine, andeach of said levers operates its perforating punch substantially in themanner already described. Connections are provided from these shiftperforating key levers for rotating the unit width gage for the purposealready described. The embodied .form of said means comprises a. seriesof dependent pins 221, one of said pins being dependent from one of saidshift perforating key levers and another from another. Arranged be,neath said dependent pins are 0. correspond;

ing series of arms 222 mountedon a rod 223,

one ofsaid arms being beneath one of said dependent pins, so as to berockedthereby, and another of said arms being beneath another of saidpins, and so on.; Mounted on said rod 223 adjacentto each of said arms222, is a--correspondin'g arm 224 also pivotally mounted upon said rod223 Each of said arms 224 is designed toactuate a stop for controllinga, position of the unit gage,

' and said arms ma be designated as stop po-' that it. rotates with theshaft and in definite tween the two pins and the unit width desitioningarms. ach s'top positioning am 224 is connected to' the correspondin keylever actuated arm 222 by a spring 2 5, so

that they move yieldingly together. Adjacent to the free end ofsaid stoppositioning arms are a series-of stop pins designated respectively bythe reference numeral 226. Said pins are positioned in a circle in thebloclr227 toslide therein. On the opposite face of said pin carryingblock 227 from said positioning arm 224i is an arm 228 fixed upon theshaft 172 of the unit gage 170, said am 228 adapted to travel or rotateover the face of said block. Thewarions positioning pins' 226 areprojected into'thepathpf this arm by the hereinbeforedescribed-connections from the various shift perforating levers, and thefrictional-1y driven shaft '17 2 impels he arm-228 to rotation untilstop d by a vgirojecting pin- 226. The pin pro ected; it rill be clearlyseen, corresponds to the shift perforating. lever last actuated, andthron 'h the rotation of thearm 228 until stopped-2g) the particular pin226 projectedbythe actuation of the shiftperforating, lever, deter-'mines the particular blade or vane which shall be-in operative relationwith the interponents 153, and thereby determines a num ber of unitswhich shall be recorded orstored against each character selecting orother unit consuming perforation made in connection withs'aid shiftposition. i

Means are provided for restoring a pin 226, that is to push it back intothe block 227 in order that the arm 228 may advance'to' the next pin 226projected by a shift 'per-' forating lever 220 which is actuated next inturn. Mounted upon said unit gage shaft 172 is an arm 230 provided atits end with a restoring finger. 231. Said arm 230is sleeved positionwith respect to the stop arm 228 but is slidable longitudinally on theshaft 172. For this purpose the sleeve 232, carrymg said arm 230 isprovided with a groove 233. In this groove rests a pin 23st carriedon anarm 235 of a bell crank pivoted at236 upon the machine frame. Ihe endofthc other arm 237 of said bell crank lever is embraced by the forkedend 238' of one arm of a bell crank lever ivoted'at 239 upon the machineframe. be other arm 240 of said bell crank lever is pivoted to a link241, which link is likewise pivoted to an arm 242, which arm is' pivotedat 243 upon the machine frame. Said arm 242 is provided with a roller244: in position to be engaged by a'pin 245 upon the friction disk 246carried upon the unit counting camshaft 188.

Beneath the six shift perforating levers 220 extends a -rod;260 carriedon one arm 261 of a bell crank lever pivoted at 262 upon themachineframe; At the end of the other arm 263 of said bell crank leveris carried a pivoted spring pressed pawl 264. In, operative relationwith said pawl isa latch lever 265 pivoted at 266 upon the machineframe, and acted on by restoring spring 268. The other end of said leveris provided-with a detent hook 267 which engages with a pin 269 on thebell crank lever 238-240 heretofore describdd Projecting from said latchlever is an arm 270 adapted to-cooperate with its'univeisal bar or bail173 heretofore described in'a manner which 'will be setforthhereinafter.

is actuated, howeven th'e'bell crank lever- 238-240 is actuated byreason of said lever engaging the rod..260. The latchinilever 265 isswung to release the bell cran .lever 238-240, and the rocking arnl 242is actu" 1 ated by the pin.2 1 '5: This rocks the bel crank lever 235-237, and the restoring finger'23l u n'thenr'm 230 pushes" in the pin226"aga1iist"which the arm 228,-fixed 'on the unit gage shaft 172 ispositioned..'

The actuation the shift perforating lever 220 hereinbefor'el mentioned,however, has

' nlready projected another pin 226' "out of the 7 face of the pin block227 in' the manner al-' ready described; Thus by the pushing in of oneof said pins 226 and the projecting-of I another ;of said pins 226, thearm '2 2 8 -ifl-,'. and splined upon said gage shaft. 172, so allowed totravel the angulur-distancebe

